Instead, he kept his gaze on the corridor, and the sickbay door.

Just then, at the other end of the room, the sickbay doors opened.

Behind him, he heard the hiss of the sickbay doors opening, then closing again.

"This isn't doing us any good," he said, starting for the sickbay doors.

"Another time," Beverly replied, watching the sickbay doors close behind them.

He turned away to find Number One waiting for him at the sickbay door.

As he walked through the sickbay doors, he had a mild spring in his step.

They both squeezed through the sickbay door at the same time, anxious to see how Phlox was doing.

- and suddenly he saw the doctor, waiting for him just inside the sickbay doors, concern written all over his face.

The sickbay doors hissed open and she stepped through them into the corridor.